Ajanta. Volume 2, Arguments about Ajanta : history and development / by Walter M. Spink.

Includes bibliographical references.

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CONTENTS -- VOLUME IIA ARGUMENTS ABOUT AJANTA -- CHAPTER ONE A DISCUSSION OF H. BAKKER�S THE VAKATAKAS -- CHAPTER TWO CAVE 26 AS AN INAUGURAL MONUMENT -- CHAPTER THREE CAVE 26�S COMPLICATED DEVELOPMENT COMPARED WITH UPENDRAGUPTA�S CAITYA CAVE 19 AND OTHER CAVES -- CHAPTER FOUR COHEN�S “POSSIBLE HISTORIES� -- CHAPTER FIVE SCHOLARLY CONTRIBUTIONS TO MAHARASHTRA PATHIK SOME CONFLICTING VIEWS AND A REPLY -- VOLUME IIB, PART I PATTERNS OF PATRONAGE -- CHAPTER SIX PATRONAGE: CONSISTENT VS. COLLAPSING -- CHAPTER SEVEN LOCATING INTRUSIONS IN TIME

Chapter eight could any intrusions date before mid-478?chapter nine caves 9 and 10: their redecoration and their intrusions -- chapter ten crises and cave -- chapter eleven the breakdown of patronage in the period of disruption -- volume iib, part ii patronage: the hinayana caves with emphasis on their redecoration in vakataka times -- chapter twelve patronage of the hinayana caves: considerations -- chapter thirteen cave 10: redecoration -- chapter fourteen cave 10: intrusions: summary -- chapter fifteen cave 10: the aisle paintings: original and intrusive

CHAPTER SIXTEEN CAVE 10: FA�ADE INTRUSIONSCHAPTER SEVENTEEN CAVE 12 -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN CAVE 9 -- CHAPTER NINETEEN THE ANOMALOUS PAINTING ON CAVE 9�S REAR WALL -- CHAPTER TWENTY CAVE 9: TRIFORIUM PAINTINGS; AISLE WALL PAINTINGS -- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE CAVE 9: PALIMPSESTS AND OTHER TRANSFORMATIONS -- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO CAVE 9: INTRUSIONS ON PILLARS -- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE CAVE 9: FA�ADE INTRUSIONS -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR CAVE 9: CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT USAGE -- APPENDIXA JANTA�S INSCRIPTIONS

Volume Two begins with writings by some of the most important critics of Walter Spink's conclusions, interspersed with his own responses, using a thorough analysis of the great Cave 26 to support his assertions. The author then turns to matters of patronage, and to the surprising fact that, unlike most other Buddhist sites, Ajanta was purely \'elitist\', developed by less than a dozen major patrons. Its brief heyday traumatically ended, however, with the death of the great emperor Harisena in about 477, creating political chaos. Ajanta's anxious patrons now joined in a headlong rush to get their shrines dedicated, in order to obtain the expected merit, before they fled the region, abandoning their caves to the monks and local devotees remaining at the now-doomed site. These \'intrusive\' new patrons now filled the caves with their own helter-skelter votive offerings, paying no heed to the well-laid plans of the years before. A similar pattern of patronage is to be found in the redecoration of the earlier Hinayana caves, where the careful planning of the work being done during Harisena's reign is suddenly interrupted by a host of individual votive donations. The volume ends with a new and useful editing of Ajanta inscriptions by Richard S. Cohen.

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